Casino [Paperback]

Barry Tighe (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 31, 2007

The local health & Safety zealots have torpedoed that hitherto unsinkable institution, The Lifeboat Club. By bottom-of-the-pack dealing, Spawater council intends to purchase the club for a derisory few chips and replace it with a government-approved supercasino.

Betwixt the council and outright victory stand Jady and his loyal army of rejects - the winos, heads and gamblers of Spawater - who are prepared to defend their loser lifestyles all the way to the gutter.

Can Jady succeed in his mission to run the Lifeboats' casino at a loss? Can he lose a million and inspire the good citizens of Spawater to turn tables on the council and come up trumps? Not if Police Inspector Brewe can mark his cards.

Editorial Reviews

Review

5.0 out of 5 stars Filling the bathroom slippers of the great Douglas Adams. Just finished book three, CASINO. Easily the best researched and engaging of the Spawater series. Jady and the crew have grown up to the realities of the world but not let realities corrode their plans and ideals. Barry Tighe is shaping up to fill the bathroom slippers of the great Douglas Adams. Enjoy :-) --Marti Atkins. 30 Mar 2008 - Amazon UK

5.0 out of 5 stars casino is the BEST!!! This is a great book that is certain fun for anyone who reads it! With multidimensional views, quirky characters, great analagies, and side splitting quotes, this book is guaranteed to make you laugh. I recommend reading all three books in order, to understand the characters better. The characters are like everyone you'll ever know, but put into words better than real life! They grow on you like old friends, with real personalities and minds of their own. the author weaves a hilarious story of Jady, who must have WAY to much time on his hands, and how he outwitts the council, Deludo, and social services... Look out Spawater HERE COMES JADY!!!:) --Tara Davis. June 4th 2007 - Amazon US

From the Publisher

The Spawater Chronicles are either serious books with added comedy, or comedic tomes poking fun at the pomposity of the serious. We are not sure which, so we gave the author a seven-book contract to find out.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Can Write Will Write (March 31, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0955488923
• ISBN-13: 978-0955488924
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,965,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author Barry Tighe is not a Roman, though he has met a few, and
does not come from Spawater.
He discovered the ancient town by accident when he fell asleep on a train
from Paddington. Noting how people were paid in cash for painting
themselves silver and standing stock-still in the town centre, he decided
that such a career in Spawater amongst the Romans was far more interesting
than his previous life as an information technology instructor.
Accordingly he joined the Spawater Gladiators' supporters club, bought a toga and told the boss what he could do with his IT job.
And has been starving ever since.

Over two thousand years ago the Romans came, saw and conquered Britain.
They stayed for a few hundred years, give or take, until rising Villa prices, the ferociousness of the local lions and the quality of home brewed wine convinced them to take all roads back to Rome.
No Romans remained. Britain, both sides of Hadrian's Wall, became a Roman-free zone.
Except....
There was one little town where the Roman bugle-song anthem of retreat, 'Legitus Quickitus', was not heard. One town where the Romans and the locals, ears full of soap, were so busy splashing around together they missed the thunder of the departing last night chariots of fire. And as there were no cabs due for another 15 hundred years - and that's if you believe the cab office - the town's Romans decided to stay.
The town grew, thriving on the naturally occurring spa waters, nurtured by the river Fons and hardened by the combination of original Brits and Roman bath lovers. The last bastion of the Roman Empire, it is now a mighty town
indeed.
The town's name? Spawater, home of the legendary Spawater Baths.
The Spawater Chronicles are the tales of its citizens, and how they take on the world and win.

Youth Market is volume one of The Spawater Chronicles, a
series of seven, relating the adventures of a group of friends, descendents of the Romans, in the old Roman town of Spawater. It tells how they handle cruelty to battered chickens and cruelty to intelligent television viewers.

Volume two sees the introduction of Identity Cards to Spawater. Up with this the Romans shall not put.
Volume three and the government wish to build a Super Casino in town. This entails flattening Lifeboats', the friends' drinking club, for a car park.
It also means demolishing the Spawater Refuge Centre, home of victims of gambling, drinking and drugs, world famous locally as Losers' Corner. The friends object - Lifeboats' is their second home.
Volume four (to be published 2008) tells the story of the government's attempt to build a nuclear power station in the Spawater hills just outside town. It's a power thing.
Volume five (to be published 2009) finds Jady inviting Alison, everyone's favourite Spawaterian, to be his candidate to run for Member of the European Parliament.
'But I know nothing about politics and nothing about the European Union,' protested Alison, baffled. 'Then you are the perfect candidate.' Volume Six? well, I have not finished writing it yet, but it involves the usual gang.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars casino is the BEST!!!, June 4, 2007

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Tara Davis "fried chikita" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Casino (Paperback)

This is a great book that is certain fun for anyone who reads it! With multidimensional views, quirky characters, great analagies, and side splitting quotes, this book is guaranteed to make you laugh. I recommend reading all three books in order, to understand the characters better. The characters are like everyone you'll ever know, but put into words better than real life! They grow on you like old friends, with real personalities and minds of their own. the author weaves a hilarious story of Jady, who must have WAY to much time on his hands, and how he outwitts the council, Deludo, and social services... Look out Spawater HERE COMES JADY!!!:)